Graduate students looking to become mental health professionals will have more opportunities to study in the University of Lethbridge’s Master of Education Counselling Psychology program thanks to funding support from the Government of Alberta.

Earlier this fall, the province announced $780,000 of support to add 15 seats over three years to the Faculty of Education’s master’s program. ULethbridge was one of 12 post-secondary schools to receive funding, creating a total of 761 new seats in a variety of programs, including psychiatric nursing, psychology, social work, child and youth care, and addiction counselling.

“Ours is the only graduate program that was funded for seat expansion, which is significant because a graduate…